Improvement in packages for tobacco-pipes and other articles



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PACKAGE 1 0R TOBACCO-PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

No.171,554. Patented Dec. 28, 1875.

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ISAAC DEMUTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKAGES FOR TOBACCO-PIPES AND OTHER ARTICLES,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,554, dated December 28,1875; application filed November 18, 1875.

. section of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. This invention consists in the combination of a slotted receiving-plate with a box of paper or other material, the slots in the receiving-plate being out to correspond to the arti cles to be packed, and being supplied with supporting-tongues, so that the pipes or other articles to be packed, when placed in the slotted receiver, are securely retained in position, and that the same, when the box is opened, can be readily reached, and each of said articles can be taken out Without disturbing the others.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a box, made of pasteboard or any other suitable material, in the form best suited to the articles to be packed. The example shown in the drawing represents a paper box calculated to receive half a dozen of smoking-pipes. In the interior of this box is secured a horizontal partition-plate, B, of cardboard or any other suitable material, at such a distance from the bottom of the box that it will divide said box in two compartments of equal depth, or nearly so. The plate B is provided with a series of slots, a, cut out to correspond to the smokingpipes or other articles to be packed, and each of these slots is furnished with a tongue, I), which, in the example shown in the drawing, is produced in any other suitable manner, and they are of such a nature that when a pipe or other article is placed in one of the slots the tongue will be depressed, as shown in Fig. 2, and form the support for the article, allowing the same to sink down in the slot to such a position that it is protected against lateral displacement, and against coming in contact with the articlescontained in the adjacent slots.

By these means a package for smokingpipes or other articles is obtained, in which the articles can beshipped without danger,

and which allows of exhibiting such articles in a store or store-window to good advantage. My package has also the great advantage that each of the articles contained in the same can be readily taken out and replaced without disturbing any of the remaining articles. It can be made cheap, and it is of great convenience to dealers in tobacco-pipes or fancy articles in,

general, or, in fact, for all articles which are to be exhibited in stores, and for which it is desirable that the same, when packed, shall be prevented from coming in contact with each other.

My package supports the article in such a position that it presents an even surface.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a package for pipes and other articles,

ISAAC DEMUTH. [L. 8.]

Witnesses:

A. W. SGHUTTER, JAMES PETTIGREW. 

